Luis Cabrera Lobato
Luis Cabrera | |
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Deputy of the Congress of the Union for the 14th district of Puebla | |
In office 13 July 1917 – 31 August 1918 | |
Succeeded by | Constantino Molina |
Personal details | |
Born | Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato 17 July 1876 Zacatlán, Puebla |
Died | 12 April 1954 Mexico City | (aged 77)
Citizenship | Mexican |
Nationality | Mexican |
Spouse | Guillermina Nevraumont (1884–1968) / Elena Cosío |
Children | María Luisa Inés/ José/ Guillermo / Mercedes / Jorge / Luis / Enrique / Daniel / Ramón |
Relatives | Daniel Cabrera |
Education | Lawyer |
Alma mater | Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia (National School of Jurisprudence) |
Occupation | Lawyer, politician, writer |
Writing career | |
Pen name | Lucas Rivera, Lic. Blas Urrea |
Genre | Essays, poetry, professional literature, translations |
Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (17 July 1876 – 12 April 1954) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer.[1][2] His pen name for his political essays was "Lic. Blas Urrea";[3] the more literary works he wrote as "Lucas Rivera". During the late presidency of Porfirio Díaz, he was a vocal critic of the regime. He became an important civilian intellectual in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
He was a co-founder of the Anti-Re-electionist Party, which backed the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero, and when armed revolutionaries forced Díaz to resign, he counseled Madero not to make a deal with the old regime. During the Madero administration, he drafted a reform land law, which Madero did not sign. After Madero's murder in the February 1913 coup d'état, Cabrera was a key civilian adviser to the Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza. He retired from politics following the ouster and death of Carranza in 1920.[4]
Biography
Cabrera was born in Zacatlán, the son of the baker Cesáreo Cabrera Ricaño and Gertrudis Lobato; an uncle, Daniel Cabrera Rivera (1858-1914), was a journalist and head of the anti-Porfirio Díaz publication El Hijo de Ahuizote[5][6][7] and was the older brother of the physician and governor of Puebla (1917–1920) Alfonso Cabrera.[5][8] Luis married Guillermina Nevraumont (1884–1968)[9] and was later married to Elena Cosío.[5]
Cabrera was assistant teacher at the Tecomaluca school in
Both he and Molina Enríquez were supporters of Bernardo Reyes to succeed Díaz in 1910, but Reyes declined to run and was sent on a military mission to Europe. Cabrera then joined in support of
Following Madero's assassination in February 1913 during General
Under
Death and legacy
Cabrera died in Mexico City. A library in Zacatlán,[13] a street,[14] and a plaza in the Colonia Roma of Mexico City are named in his honor.[15]
Works
Cabrera wrote for several newspapers, and predominantly translated foreign works into Spanish, but was also author of own works.[7]
- Essays
- Las manzanas de Zacatlán, 1940
- El matrimonio, 1951
- Poetry
- Musa peregrina (includes versions of other poets), 1921
- Collected works
- Obra jurídica, 1972
- Obra literaria, 1974
- Obra política, 1975
Further reading
- Clements, Kendrick A. "Emissary from a Revolution: Luis Cabrera and Woodrow Wilson 1." The Americas 35.3 (1979): 353-371.
- Gibbon, Thomas Edward. Mexico Under Carranza ( Doubleday, Page, 1919) online.
- LaFrance, David. "Luis Cabrera Lobato" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, vol. 1, pp. 176–77. Chicago: Fitzroy and Dearborn 1997.
- de Beer, Gabriella. Luis Cabrera: Un intelectual en la Revolución mexicana. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica 1984.
- Meyer, Eugenia. Luis Cabrera: Teórico y crítico de la Revolución. Mexico City: Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) 80, 1982.
References
- ^ Con proyecto de decreto para inscribir con letras de oro en el Recinto de la Cámara de Diputados, ... Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (Spanish)
- ^ David G. LaFrance, "Luis Cabrera Lobato," in Encyclopedia of Mexico, vol. 1, p. 176. Chicago: Fitzroy and Dearborn 1997.
- ^ Camp, Roderick Ai. "Luis Cabrera50 Lobato". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, v. 1, 502.
- ^ a b c d e LaFrance, "Luis Cabrera Lobato," p. 176.
- ^ a b c Cabrera Luis (Spanish)
- ^ a b c "Lic. Luis Cabrera Lobato". Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
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- ^ Luis Cabrera
- ^ Shadle, Stanley F. Andrés Molina Enríquez: Mexican Land Reformer in the Revolutionary Era. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1994, p. 36.
- ^ Camp,"Luis Cabrera Lobato", 501
- ^ LaFrance, "Luis Cabrera Lobato," p. 176
- ^ Biblioteca Pública Municipal Lic. Luis Cabrera Lobato
- ^ "Google Maps".
- ^ "Plaza Luis Cabrera". Mexico City government.
External links
- Luis Cabrera in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin